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- DOCUMENT:Q105244 14-OCT-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Emergency Repair Disk May Not Repair All Windows NT Files
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
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- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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- The Windows NT Emergency Repair disk may not be able to repair some of
- the Windows NT system files if additional drivers or third-party
- system files are added after installation.
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- The Emergency Repair disk uses a file called REPAIR.INF to store
- information about an installation. The names, location, and checksum
- of each Windows NT file copied to the system during installation are
- stored within this file. This data is used in the event of a repair to
- verify the integrity of each Windows NT file. If a discrepancy is
- encountered, the file is copied from the original disks or CD-ROM.
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- If an additional driver or software is loaded after the initial
- installation of Windows NT, the Emergency Repair disk will be unable
- to verify these files. Troubleshooting and replacement of such files
- must be done manually, rather than with the Emergency Repair disk.
-
- For example, if you add a third-party display driver or printer driver
- after installation, the Emergency Repair disk will not have
- information on these files and will not be able to verify them.
-
- Files that may be affected by this include drivers for audio adapters,
- printer drivers, display drivers, network adapter drivers, and any
- other software that requires new files to be copied to the system
- after the initial installation.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10 devdrv corrupt
- KBCategory:
- KBSubcategory: stp
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